Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-11-11
STATE NEWS.
HANCOCK

Business is likely to be brisk in Buckspor
this winter Central wharf is being re
pianked and a store house one hundred fee
long by forty feet will be built to accom-
modate the freight of the New York steamer
which will land there this winter. 1t is alss
| expected that the Maine Central R. R., vii
| lay about five hundred feet of additions
track to facilitate the increase of business
there this winter, which will probably requir.
an extra locomotive.
Game Warden C. W. Tracey of Goulds
boro captured the notorious poacher, Sea
more, Sunday morning, October 80, at Tunk
Pond, with 10 black ducks in his net. Sea
more has netted ducks for years, against tbs
law, but owing to his cunning in keeping ou
of the way at the proper time has not beer
arrested before. Ellsworth american.
KEssEBEc.
A special despatch to the Bangor Com
mercial says: The annual meeting of the
Somerset Railroad Co. was held "Wednesday
at Oakland and the following directors were
| elected: John Aver and X. B. Dunn OF
Waterville F. W Hill, Exeter; X. W. Dunn
of Oakland Nathan Weston, Madison: Col
Edwarp Rowe of Norridgewock; Mr.. Brown
of North Arson. They voted 10 change the
| bonds with accrued coupons amounting 10
about 100000 into stock. The new mort
| gage of $500 will be placed on II miles
of road from Oakland TO Bingham, which
| will leave the Indebtedness of the road $3.50
900 first mortgage of the road and rolling
| stock and 500, 900 in stock.
KNOX.
A telegraph Office will probably be estab-
lished at Warren station this month.
f.anrgas Piyar MILE bara allal has
set of cards To their mill, of late improve
ment.
Over 400 tons of freight were handled at
Warren station during the month of October,
A party interested in the Mount Desert and
Sorrento Land Company has bought some 200
acres on the Belfast road extending to the
shore of Penobscot Bay, above Sherman
Point in Camden.
The town officers have made a thorough
repair of the bridge at McLains Mills, APP
pletOn.
November I'd, John Sheriff, superintendent
of Long Cove Granite Co., at Tenants Har-
Dor, was found dead in his bed. Tuesday
night Mr.. Sheriff retired about TO- 80 O'Clock
in his usual health. Not making his appear
ance in the morning usual, his landlord
went to his room and found him lying in bed
lifeless. A physician was Immediately sum-
moned, and, after a careful examination of
the remains and surroundings, returned q
verdict that death resulted from the Excess
sive use of alcoholic stimulants.
w. II. Glover & Co. expect to have the
Widows Island structures completed by
December.
Knox county had q patients in the Maine
General Hospital at Portland, the past year.
Lincoln had Is and Hancock 20.
A friend has added to the Courier Gazette s
collection nail from the remaining block
house of Fort Halifax in Winslow, built in
1854
Twentythree government headstones have
been received for the graves of soldiers buried
in Rockland and vicinity. The stones are
plain marble slabs, with the name of the sol
der, regiment and company, and date and
place of his death. They will be set up i'm
mediately.
The story and half house of Dexter f
Thurston, on the Camden road, Rockland
was burned Sunday night with its contents
The fire is thought to have been incendiary
There was an insurance of $3.50 on the house
and $50 on the furniture.
PENoBscoT.
The village schools at VIM have closed on
account of the appearance of the measles
there.
1t has been decided that Bangor is to have
a toboggan slide this winter, notwithstanding
the announcement that has been made that
were to be without one and that those who
enjoy tobogganing would have to be content
with coasting. The new slide will be erected
at once.
PIsCATAQUIs.
The first steam mill in the town of Shirley
is in process of erection.
Thursday morning, Nov. Sd, the farm
buildings of Granville Roberts of North
Brownville, were burned. Probable loss
$1,000; no insurance. Mr.. X. took railroad
boarders and the fire is supposed to have
originated by their smoking in their room.
The only things saved from the house was
chamber set and lounge. The stock and
wagons were all saved but the sleds burned.
The hay and grain lost was valued at 5000.
Intelligence has been received of the death
on the 18th of October, of Mr.. Frank W.
Herring oldest son of Mrs. Julia A. Herring
of Guilford Center. He died from the eff
fects of broken leg in Helena, New Mexico.
One of our most prominent citizens of
Brownville, Mr.. Enos Stickney, died at ten
O'Clock Tuesday morning from heart disease,
writes a correspondent of the Bangor Com
mercial. A few weeks ago Mr. Stickney
started for the Aroostook on his annual bust
ness trip but was obliged to return home on
account of rapidly failing health. He has
been long and favorably known to business
circles in Eastern Maine, and in his death
the community sustains a great loss. Mr..
| Stickney leaves wife and family.
SOMERSET.
| One of the men employed on the Skowhe-
gan water works had some trouble with the
boss last Saturday. He was paid off and
discharged. He got full, hired team to
take him home, and the next morning found
that he had been robbed of all his money,
some $50
Petty burglaries continue to take place at
Skowhegan.
| A year old colt owned by VIM. J. Haynes
of Smithfeld took a cool bath the other
morning by falling into a cistern eleven feet
deep. As luck would have it there was but
about three feet of water in the cistern, so
the colt had no trouble in keeping aioat
after remaining in the cstern for an hour or
so she was hoisted out, apparently no worse
for the immersion
WAsHINGroN
Joseph Ward of Millbridge, lobster fisher
man, while recently attending to his traps,
got his hand caught in the claws of the fish
which resulted in a slight abrasion of the
skin. Soon after blood poisoning began to
develop, which is feared may result in serious
" manning him for life
YORK.
Forest fires are raging on the line of the
Boston & Maine Railroad, Western Division,
two miles west of kennebunk.